| Kai_Mao said: Whoops my bad. Here’s a better one: https://segmentnext.com/2017/05/01/nintendo-switch-demographics-ps4-xbox-one/ |
Oh, yes, it's the one I linked too. I do think it's weird, because I can't really understand from where all these consumers are coming. If PS4+X1 sales had plummeted, it would make sense. But it looks like a completely different crowd.
| Kai_Mao said: Though to be fair, DQXI has released only in Japan. |
That's true. Either way it wouldn't make it jump enough to be even top 20. And just the fact that the publisher didn't mind not releasing it yet on the west show that they were not expecting massive sales.
| justinian said: You beat me to it. You make very good points. For years many have been saying (and evidence proves it) that TV console sales have been falling rapidly over the last decade in Japan whereas Nintendo handheld sales have been rocketing. Sony knows this, MS definitely knows this and more importantly Nintendo knows and has totally exploited this. The trick is to give the Japanese a console they can hold in their hands and you have a good chance of success. The reality is that the rest of the world is significantly more important than Japan and MS - as you stated - sold a very good amount of consoles without their support. Sony is doing very well now without any groudbreaking sales in Japan. It is what is is. Yes, it would help if Japan still bought TV consoles in significant numbers but the reality is that it doesn't and Sony and MS must and has accepted this and moved on. |
The Switch is basically exactly what Japanese gamers wanted all the time. Spot on. I think if Sony had a console like the Switch, they would just end up being destroyed by MS.
I'm starting to believe that the consumers for Sony and Nintendo consoles are quite different. MS competes for the same crowd as Sony, but Nintendo seems to be selling to a completely different market. And this is a great thing, it shows that we had like a big dormant market that nobody was trying to satisfy.
I'm not sure Sony could create a console that would appeal to Japan without risking losing the rest of the world. And that's risky. The Sony market demands 3rd party games, while the Switch crowd doesn't seem that much interested. This is also pretty interesting because Nintendo has a broken relation with 3rd parties dating from the 90s, so they figured out the situation by creating a business where only their own games matter (TBH, they always cared only about their own software).
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